US6055354A - Data storage apparatus - Google Patents
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US20020006265A1 (en) * | 1996-04-15 | 2002-01-17 | Discreet Logic Inc. | Method and apparatus for allowing frames stored in a native format to appear as if stored in an alternative format |
US6404975B1 (en) | 1996-04-15 | 2002-06-11 | Discreet Logic Inc. | Video storage |
US20020165930A1 (en) * | 2001-04-20 | 2002-11-07 | Discreet Logic Inc. | Data storage with stored location data to facilitate disk swapping |
US6516420B1 (en) * | 1999-10-25 | 2003-02-04 | Motorola, Inc. | Data synchronizer using a parallel handshaking pipeline wherein validity indicators generate and send acknowledgement signals to a different clock domain |
US6519772B1 (en) | 1996-04-15 | 2003-02-11 | Autodesk Canada Inc. | Video data storage |
US6829678B1 (en) * | 2000-07-18 | 2004-12-07 | International Business Machines Corporation | System for determining the order and frequency in which space is allocated on individual storage devices |
US20070088976A1 (en) * | 2005-09-30 | 2007-04-19 | Fujitsu Limited | RAID system and rebuild/copy back processing method thereof |
US20070101187A1 (en) * | 2005-10-28 | 2007-05-03 | Fujitsu Limited | RAID system, RAID controller and rebuilt/copy back processing method thereof |
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US6374336B1 (en) | 1997-12-24 | 2002-04-16 | Avid Technology, Inc. | Computer system and process for transferring multiple high bandwidth streams of data between multiple storage units and multiple applications in a scalable and reliable manner |
US6415373B1 (en) | 1997-12-24 | 2002-07-02 | Avid Technology, Inc. | Computer system and process for transferring multiple high bandwidth streams of data between multiple storage units and multiple applications in a scalable and reliable manner |
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US5530557A (en) * | 1994-09-12 | 1996-06-25 | International Business Machines Corporation | Online placement of video files determined by a function of the bandwidth to space ratio of each of the storage devices in a server environment |
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US5598276A (en) * | 1993-10-29 | 1997-01-28 | Time Warner Entertainment Co., L.P. | System and method for controlling play of multiple versions of the same motion picture stored on an optical disk |
US5671386A (en) * | 1993-09-23 | 1997-09-23 | Philips Electronics North America Corporation | System for storing data and for providing simultaneous plural access to data by connecting each access channel to each and every one of storage arrays |
US5719985A (en) * | 1993-12-24 | 1998-02-17 | Sony Corporation | Apparatus for simultaneously recording and reproducing data to and from a recording medium |
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US4577240A (en) * | 1982-11-15 | 1986-03-18 | Digital Engineering, Ltd. | Multiple zone multiple disk video recording system |
US5583653A (en) * | 1990-09-19 | 1996-12-10 | U.S. Philips Corporation | Method of recording picture information, record carrier, and picture retrieval and reproduction device for reading the record carrier |
US5469308A (en) * | 1991-02-28 | 1995-11-21 | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | Management apparatus for a plurality of cassettes |
US5754730A (en) * | 1992-09-21 | 1998-05-19 | Tektronix, Inc. | Method for predicting what video data should be in a cache which is in a disk-based digital video recorder |
US5671386A (en) * | 1993-09-23 | 1997-09-23 | Philips Electronics North America Corporation | System for storing data and for providing simultaneous plural access to data by connecting each access channel to each and every one of storage arrays |
US5510905A (en) * | 1993-09-28 | 1996-04-23 | Birk; Yitzhak | Video storage server using track-pairing |
US5598276A (en) * | 1993-10-29 | 1997-01-28 | Time Warner Entertainment Co., L.P. | System and method for controlling play of multiple versions of the same motion picture stored on an optical disk |
US5719985A (en) * | 1993-12-24 | 1998-02-17 | Sony Corporation | Apparatus for simultaneously recording and reproducing data to and from a recording medium |
US5559764A (en) * | 1994-08-18 | 1996-09-24 | International Business Machines Corporation | HMC: A hybrid mirror-and-chained data replication method to support high data availability for disk arrays |
US5530557A (en) * | 1994-09-12 | 1996-06-25 | International Business Machines Corporation | Online placement of video files determined by a function of the bandwidth to space ratio of each of the storage devices in a server environment |
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US7218845B2 (en) | 1996-04-15 | 2007-05-15 | Autodesk Canada Co. | Reading image frames as files |
US20020006265A1 (en) * | 1996-04-15 | 2002-01-17 | Discreet Logic Inc. | Method and apparatus for allowing frames stored in a native format to appear as if stored in an alternative format |
US6404975B1 (en) | 1996-04-15 | 2002-06-11 | Discreet Logic Inc. | Video storage |
US6826778B2 (en) | 1996-04-15 | 2004-11-30 | Autodesk Canada Inc. | Data storage |
US6519772B1 (en) | 1996-04-15 | 2003-02-11 | Autodesk Canada Inc. | Video data storage |
US6185368B1 (en) * | 1996-07-29 | 2001-02-06 | Sony Corporation | Redundant disk array with real-time lost data reconstruction |
US6141493A (en) * | 1997-11-04 | 2000-10-31 | Chen; Meng-Chang | Filing of variable-bit-rate video information on zoned disks |
US6516420B1 (en) * | 1999-10-25 | 2003-02-04 | Motorola, Inc. | Data synchronizer using a parallel handshaking pipeline wherein validity indicators generate and send acknowledgement signals to a different clock domain |
US7325120B2 (en) | 2000-07-18 | 2008-01-29 | International Business Machines Corporation | Allocating space on data storage devices in proportion to weights associated with the devices |
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US6829678B1 (en) * | 2000-07-18 | 2004-12-07 | International Business Machines Corporation | System for determining the order and frequency in which space is allocated on individual storage devices |
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US20020165930A1 (en) * | 2001-04-20 | 2002-11-07 | Discreet Logic Inc. | Data storage with stored location data to facilitate disk swapping |
US20070088976A1 (en) * | 2005-09-30 | 2007-04-19 | Fujitsu Limited | RAID system and rebuild/copy back processing method thereof |
US7631218B2 (en) * | 2005-09-30 | 2009-12-08 | Fujitsu Limited | RAID system and Rebuild/Copy back processing method thereof |
US20070101187A1 (en) * | 2005-10-28 | 2007-05-03 | Fujitsu Limited | RAID system, RAID controller and rebuilt/copy back processing method thereof |
US7562249B2 (en) * | 2005-10-28 | 2009-07-14 | Fujitsu Limited | RAID system, RAID controller and rebuilt/copy back processing method thereof |
CN101526886B (en) * | 2009-04-27 | 2011-09-07 | 杭州华三通信技术有限公司 | Data operating method of redundant arrays of independent disk and device |
CN106250058A (en) * | 2016-07-27 | 2016-12-21 | 浪潮(北京)电子信息产业有限公司 | A kind of RAID maintaining method based on variable band and system |
CN106250058B (en) * | 2016-07-27 | 2019-05-10 | 浪潮(北京)电子信息产业有限公司 | A kind of RAID maintaining method and system based on variable bar band |
US10169141B2 (en) * | 2016-08-11 | 2019-01-01 | SK Hynix Inc. | Modifiable stripe length in flash memory devices |
CN110308875A (en) * | 2019-06-27 | 2019-10-08 | 深信服科技股份有限公司 | Data read-write method, device, equipment and computer readable storage medium |
CN110308875B (en) * | 2019-06-27 | 2023-07-14 | 深信服科技股份有限公司 | Data read-write method, device, equipment and computer readable storage medium |
US11842074B2 (en) * | 2021-03-21 | 2023-12-12 | Vast Data Ltd. | Striping in a storage system |
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